Job Description

Encore Multimedia, a leading full-service marketing agency located in East Texas, is looking for a Web Developer to join our team. Encore's web team serves a crucial technical role in our organization, responsible for creating modern, unique, and attractive marketing and communication web solutions. The ideal candidate for this position is a hands-on professional with strong knowledge of front-end development and content management platforms, and an ability to translate our customer's business needs into client-friendly functions that will expand their website’s influence in their industry. The Web Developer will aid our team in the architecting, creation, and maintenance of web sites and applications for our ever-growing list of customers

Requirements

Previous experience

Understands key web development concepts through experiences such as:

• Interpreting graphic visual or interaction designs in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

• Creating visually appealing web pages or interfaces.

• Creating, editing or modifying templates for a CMS or web development framework.

• Programming interaction with JavaScript and/or a library such as jQuery, React, or Vue.

• Testing cross-browser, cross-platform, and/or cross-device compatibility for inconsistencies.

• Testing for compliance to specified standards such as accessibility standards in the clients’ region or domain.

• Conducting observational user testing or reviewing designs against usability heuristics.

• Interfacing with back-end technologies and system.

Domain knowledge or transferable skills

Experience with web development languages such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.

HTML

• Strong knowledge of HTML5 syntax.

• Knowledge of the semantic meaning of all HTML elements.

• Familiarity with the semantic markup for display of lists, tabular data, forms, articles, etc.

• Knowledge at the level to be able to hand-code markup.

• Including media and responsive images.

CSS

• Specifying different CSS for various media, devices and displays.

• Best practices in CSS file organization and structure.

• How to define, combine and group CSS selectors for HTML elements, ID, classes, pseudo classes, child or sibling.

• Knowledge of CSS specificity.

• Syntax of CSS declarations, properties and attributes.

• CSS box model and methods for CSS positioning, absolute and relative.

• Knowledge of properties and attributes to control the display.

• Familiarity with differences in CSS 2 and CSS 3.

• Proficient with a CSS Preprocessor such as Sass or LESS.

JavaScript

• Knowledge of the operators, variables, datatypes, objects, properties and methods.

• Familiarity with control structures such as objects, functions, conditional statements, arrays, loops and expressions.

• Forms and regular expression validation and submitting data.

• Knowledge of how to apply logical operators and conditional statements.

• Knowledge of the DOM HTML objects and their properties.

• Knowledge of ES5/ES6 syntax.

PHP

• Modern PHP knowledge.

• Object Oriented Programming.

Other Skills

• Excellent analytical and multitasking skills.

• Systematic approach to problem solving.

• In-depth understanding of the entire web development process (design, development and deployment).

• Methods to ensure browser & device compatibility.

• Methods for progressive enhancement.

• Methods to ensure accessibility.

• File compression techniques for improving speed.

• Version Control with Git.

• Build Tools such as Grunt, Gulp, Webpack.

Nice to have

• Strong Framework and CMS knowledge – Laravel, Drupal.

• Linux server management.

• MySQL database queries and management.

• Ecommerce.

• Node.js development.

• Decoupled SPA applications.

Benefits

• Base pay
• Bonus pool
• SIMPLE IRA w/company match
• Paid vacation
• Paid sick days
• Nine paid holidays
• Monthly remote days
• Monday-Fundays
• Frequent company provided meals
• Casual and friendly atmosphere

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